"The advance of regret can be so gradual……" — E. M. Forster

"The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not."

— E. M. Forster

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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster has 350 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for…
It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an…
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never…

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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. — Jane Addams
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may… — Pope Benedict XVI
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. — Buffalo Bill
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. — Aeschylus
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. — John Bolton
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are… — John Bolton
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. — George W. Bush
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a… — George W. Bush
I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways. — Jeb Bush
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal… — David Cameron
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating.… — Albert Camus

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